Two Cases of Rhabdomyolysis (Haff Disease) After Eating Carp Fish

Unexplained rhabdomyolysis after eating fish is a rare condition caused by an unidentified toxin. Most of the incidences in the United States have been linked to consuming buffalo fish or crawfish. We present 2 cases of Haff disease in which the patients consumed grass carp as opposed to the usual s...

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Autores principales: Louis, Joey V., Sein, Saw, Lyon, Claudia, Apergis, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27635408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709616663230
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description Unexplained rhabdomyolysis after eating fish is a rare condition caused by an unidentified toxin. Most of the incidences in the United States have been linked to consuming buffalo fish or crawfish. We present 2 cases of Haff disease in which the patients consumed grass carp as opposed to the usual suspects of buffalo fish or crawfish.
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spelling pubmed-50113062016-09-15 Two Cases of Rhabdomyolysis (Haff Disease) After Eating Carp Fish Louis, Joey V. Sein, Saw Lyon, Claudia Apergis, George J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Unexplained rhabdomyolysis after eating fish is a rare condition caused by an unidentified toxin. Most of the incidences in the United States have been linked to consuming buffalo fish or crawfish. We present 2 cases of Haff disease in which the patients consumed grass carp as opposed to the usual suspects of buffalo fish or crawfish. SAGE Publications 2016-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5011306/ /pubmed/27635408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709616663230 Text en © 2016 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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